Image size: 16.5 x 24.5 cm,
Object size: 25.0 x 33.9 cm
Gilles Massot (b. 1955, Aix en Provence, France) is a multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work based on the idea of “the space between things” aims to establish links and decipher the narratives existing between disciplines, people, occurrences and parts of the world. His visual art practice more specifically deals with the theory of photography and its relation to time and space. After studying architecture and photography in Marseille, he came to live in Singapore in 1981. He was involved in the local art scene through several seminal art events, including the first editions of the Festival of Arts Fringe. The photographs were part of Massot’s first photographic exhibition-installation “Singapore from B.W. to C.” in 1985, held at Beaverton Building in 10 Tannery Lane, which no longer exists today. The artist also believes that this is the first exhibition in Singapore to be held in the industrial space of a typical flatted factory and therefore one of the first shows of contemporary art photography in Singapore, predating the Artists Village use of Hong Bee warehouse in 1992.
